Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Survey, Feedback requested, and Office Hour

2012-09-14 Thread charles andrès
Dear Jan-Bart, Unfortunately the exact wordings was I'll point out also that there are zero real-world implications for the survey results. Because we all agree that there is now such thing like a zero real-world impact survey, we really hope that the raw results of this survey will be made as

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEducator] Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online

2012-09-14 Thread Samuel Klein
via CC -- Forwarded message -- From: Cable Green ca...@creativecommons.org [Forwarding from the Open Society Foundations and SPARC.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2012 CONTACT: Andrea Higginbotham, SPARC, and...@arl.org; 202-296-2296 Amy Weil, Open Society Foundations,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Survey, Feedback requested, and Office Hour

2012-09-14 Thread Florence Devouard
On 9/12/12 4:14 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: Hey So I might have missed some mails on this thread (perhaps because they were not posted on this public list) but I highly doubt that Sue perform surveys that do not have a real-world impact on our operations. I know that the results of the

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK report, August 2012

2012-09-14 Thread Stevie Benton
Hello everyone, I'm writing to let you know that our report for August 2012 is now published. You can see the report herehttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2012/August . This month's report includes updates on education and expert outreach, communications, GLAM, fundraising, membership and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Survey, Feedback requested, and Office Hour

2012-09-14 Thread Jan-bart de Vreede
Hey So someone sent me the internal-l mail and I do think that the zero real-world thing is taken out of context here. But a few points 1) Lets not have these discussions on internal-l, there is no reason to not have those in public 2) See 1) 3) I am sure that the data set allows us to see

[Wikimedia-l] IPv4 close to end of road for RIPE,

2012-09-14 Thread FT2
General info for anyone who wants. Not that new, announced imminent a week ago or so. (Also apparently not the first, APNIC hit this point last year) http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/last-8-phases

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App

2012-09-14 Thread Philip Chang
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Philip Chang pch...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM Subject: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear WLM Members, As of yesterday,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-14 Thread Kim Bruning
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:21:55PM +0200, Alice Wiegand wrote: Hi all, on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'm glad to announce the following statement about the travel guide RfC http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide : What are the next steps? Will the foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew Gray
I was surprised to see this appear earlier today! It'll be interesting to see the results... Are there any plans to put a banner in the Android app as well as the mobile site? A large number of users have switched, so the mobile site will only get a portion of the Android traffic. Andrew. On 14

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Survey, Feedback requested, and Office Hour

2012-09-14 Thread Frédéric Schütz
On 14/09/12 18:08, Jan-bart de Vreede wrote: 4) Doesn't every survey contain questions that don't apply to the whole responding audience? No, because the answer would not be terribly useful. In all surveys I have seen in my work life [statistics work -- I don't design much surveys myself,